Did it or didn't it?

[motorbyclist]

perhaps the poll should be asking a much more relevant question, as many people will drop a faired bike without appreciable fairing damage? what if the damage included forks etc that would have written off the bike regardless of the cosmetic bits?

ie, levers, indicators and wingmirrors are usually cheap and easily replaced, and 'big' crashes will often be a write off due to forks alone, rather than cosmetics.

ie. Q"in your first 6 months of riding, did you do any appreciable damage to your motorcycle?"
A yes, faired bike
B yes, faired bike -would have written off if naked anyway (forks etc)
c yes, naked bike
D yes, naked bike -would have written off anyway (forks etc)
E no, faired bike
F no naked bike



an even better question as it's simpler:

"in your first 6 months of riding, did you regret buying a faired motorcycle?"
a yes by reasons including cosmetic damage
b yes for other reasons
c no

d bough a nekkid one - obligatory due to kbers not seeing the "view results" link

[Blossom]

Yeah. Car park going to do my restricted. Broke the clutch lever off. Not my finest moment.

Dave

Err did ya get ya licence after that?

I have not dropped my bike at all. But dumb question from me.. My cruiser does not have fairings but I have not heard anyone refer to them as neked bikes. Soooo where do they fit in?

[motorbyclist]

naked i guess

though all that chrome looks expensive to replace....

[RantyDave]

(dropped in car park waiting for restricted)

Err did ya get ya licence after that?

Yeah, actually. It was while the ... thingy ... scheme was running so the idea was that we'd spend the morning doing theory, afternoon having a bit of a warm up trundle then the restricted would be handed out en masse at the tail end of the day. So I lunch time I hot footed it up to a bike shop, picked up a dirt bike clutch lever and wedged it on. All good.

Dave

[normajeane]

I never had an accident or dropped my bike till I was older and started getting cocky

Are you older

[normajeane]

Yes, 20 years after not riding and stalled the bike when leaving on a small rise onto a road

[MsKABC]

Technically it stayed upright, because I didn't actually own it when I was test-riding it and laid it down during a low-speed manouvre ops: Lesson learnt though, it stayed upright after that (So I selected "yes" in the poll)

[dave222]

I voted yes, had been practicing up and down my drive and small gravel as it was my first ride. Decided I had enough confidence to ride on the road and off I went, got to the end of the gravel road and was about to turn onto the main road when a car came around the bend, grabbed front brake and over she went.

Next day ended up sliding on its side turning back into the gravel road.. man I hate gravel now!

Only scratches both times to the fairing and mirror/frame got a bit bent but was easily fixed.

[Jantar]

perhaps the poll should be asking a much more relevant question,......

No. To be able to carry out any meaningful analysis the poll must either be kept very simple (ie only two options) or the number of respondents needs to be very large. Even as it is, the number of votes is very borderline to make any statistically significant claim. A few more votes at the current percentages would help.

[motorbyclist]

No. To be able to carry out any meaningful analysis the poll must either be kept very simple (ie only two options) or the number of respondents needs to be very large. Even as it is, the number of votes is very borderline to make any statistically significant claim. A few more votes at the current percentages would help.

an even better question as it's simpler:

"in your first 6 months of riding, did you regret buying a faired motorcycle?"
a yes by reasons including cosmetic damage
b yes for other reasons
c no

d bought a nekkid one - obligatory due to kbers not seeing the "view results" link

there, only three options and directly addresses then issue at hand

[Jantar]

there, only three options and directly addresses then issue at hand

Still you are missing the point. I am trying to establish whether or not it is likely that a rider will drop their bike within the first 6 months of riding. I am not trying to differentiate between faired, unfaired, commuter, cruiser, dual purpose, or any other type of bike.
I am certainly not trying to judge whether or not anyone regretted buying a faired bike, irrespective of the reasons.

[motorbyclist]

well if the thread is, as per the original post, about learners riding mild mannered bikes, perhaps the question should take that into account?

it COULD be that those riders on perkier bikes actually crash/drop LESS often

and then the proportion of riders on the perky and tame bikes would throw that anyway


this big argument on KB is whether or not a leaner should have faired or naked due to costs when (if) you drop it. of course if you drop and do any damage is a completely different story...



what i'm trying to say is, your question yeilds fairly useless information for all the analysis you're making into the KB population

[ital916]

well if the thread is, as per the original post, about learners riding mild mannered bikes, perhaps the question should take that into account?

it COULD be that those riders on perkier bikes actually crash/drop LESS often

and then the proportion of riders on the perky and tame bikes would throw that anyway


this big argument on KB is whether or not a leaner should have faired or naked due to costs when (if) you drop it. of course if you drop and do any damage is a completely different story...



what i'm trying to say is, your question yeilds fairly useless information for all the analysis you're making into the KB population

I am going to join the church of motorbicyclology